Offer To The CEO

Friday, continued …

Just after 11am, Hou Yi received a message from the contacts for WTF International and the other entities he used to purchased the shares in Lu Corporation. CEO Lu has still without a clue to the various entities he had used, which ultimately he and Anna control, to purchase Lu Corporation Shares, particularly as investigations as to the ultimate ownership would take time, and that was something CEO LU did not have.

As Anna came into the office after her physio appointment, he messaged her to come up to his office at lunch time, both for a meal and so they could discuss things.

He then picked up phone and telephoned Tan, asking him to arrange a meeting with Lion and Snake, given how the group meeting last Thursday ended. King was still p*ssed off with him, about the others demanding he transfer the shares to Hou Yi. However, with the request coming from Tan, it would likely happen, whereas if he made the request it would be denied.

Ten minutes later, he received a message from Tan 'Meeting approved, but Anna, Amanda and I have to be there 3pm this afternoon. Can you let Amanda know.'

Hou Yi messaged back, 'Will do, meet at Mama and Papa?'

The prompt response was 'Perfect. I assume Amanda will come with you. See you then.'

Given the message from Tan, Hou Yi looked up the internal telephone directory and found Amanda's number to call her. After three rings, she answered "Amanda Mei speaking"

"Hello Madam Yao, your husband told me to tell you …"

Amanda, really wanting to retaliate against Hou Yi, but given the head of the Legal Department was in her office, telling her off, that was hard to do.

"Is it OK to call you back Sir, I am in a meeting with the head of my department."

"Fine Amanda, but before you hang up on your computer, disconnect from your current intranet server, search for CEO Intranet, and enter the password all in lower case and as one word anna hou one temporary password, this give me access to the camera in your room, I need to see what is going on."

While Hou Yi was speaking, Amanda was doing what she was asked on her computer, and replied "Yes Sir, I will do that. Can I call you back say in fifteen or twenty minutes."

"As soon as he leaves I will call you back."

Amanda ended the call, and turned back to the head of the department, who was fuming about being interrupted. He knew he needed to get rid of this woman as soon as possible from the department. She would be a thorn in their side in their plans for Hou Enterprises in the future.

"Miss Mei, lately your attitude in this department has been atrocious. You have had periods of absences that have nor been approved within the department, and we are sick of it. You might have a relationship with a board member, but that does not excuse you from going outside the relevant chain for approval of leave. Over the last six weeks, there has been at least twelve occasions where you have not been here, when you should have."

"Sir, not to be too blunt, my recent absences are fully explainable, and all but one has been approved by the CEO. Three absences were visiting Madam Hou in hospital, two absences have been tied up with my acting as proxy for my husband at company board meetings, five absences have been tied up with the new joint venture between Hou Enterprises and XF International, and one absence when my step-daughter married CEO Hou's brother-in-law. The only one that the CEO had not directly approved was a personal leave request that I had filed with human resources with appropriate supporting documentation."

"You know the rules that my predecessor put in place and they have not been rescinded. All leave request have to be approved internally. If you can not follow the rules and have any other absences without approval you will immediately be out of a job with Hou Enterprises."

"Sir, as I said all but one of my absences have been approved by the CEO and if he cannot approve leave, you need to take this up with him. The company rules simply require that unless you are ill, and are applying for sick leave, someone at deputy head of department level or senior to that has has to approve the leave. The CEO meets that requirement."

"I do not give a care. This department has rules, and you are required to follow them or it is grounds for termination."